News

Call for nominations TMF Starting Grants 2025

The call for nominations for the TMF Starting Grant program 2025 is now published.

Results from the Mohn Nutrition Research Laboratory

The Mohn Nutrition Research Laboratory was established at UiB in 2018. For the last five years, the laboratory has been supported by the Trond Mohn Research Foundation in collaboration with Haukeland University Hospital and the University of Bergen. This article highlights results from the research groups at the laboratory during this period. The laboratory is led by Professor Jutta Dierkes and researches obesity and malnutrition and their causes, consequences and treatment.

Trond Mohn Research Foundation invites all project leaders to the anniversary breakfast in August

The Trond Mohn Research Foundation celebrates its 20th anniversary in 2024. We want to celebrate together with our project leaders over the years.

Successful alumni gathering under the auspices of the TMF-UiB career program

Current and former winners of the TMF Starting grant and selected guests spent an entertaining and informative afternoon at this year's alumni gathering under the auspices of the TMF-UiB career program. This year 100-year-old plants and new ways to motivate employees were on the agenda.

The way we communicate about antibiotic resistance has a lot to say about whether the message gets across – successful 3rd annual meeting for the CAMRIA center

The Western Norwegian Center for Antimicrobial Resistance CAMRIA organized its third annual meeting at the beginning of May. Communication about antibiotic resistance and the projects of the young researchers in the center were the main topics this time.

Congratulations on completing your TMF Starting Grant, Arjan Schakel!

Professor Arjan Schakel joined the University of Bergen´s Department of Comparative Politics with a TMF Starting Grant in 2019 to shed light on regional democracy. Directly elected regional representatives can be found in 23 European countries and they rule over more than 430 million citizens, but the study of regional governance was at that time still in its infancy.

Women’s Health: announcement of a Research program

Faculty of Medicine at the University of Bergen, together with Helse Bergen and Trond Mohn Research Foundation (TMF), announces a Research program in Women’s Health.

Welcome to Åsta Haukås as a new member of the Trond Mohn Research Foundation´s scientific advisory committee

Professor Åsta Haukås from the University of Bergen´s Department of Foreign Languages has been appointed as new member in the foundation´s scientific advisory committee from March 1st 2024.

The foundation changes its name

From February 1st 2024 the foundation changes its name to Trond Mohn Research Foundation.

New technology in combination with good care aims to improve the quality of life for the elderly

We must be at the forefront technologically, while at the same time retaining the important care for the ever-growing group of elderly people who will be living at home in the future, says the head of a new research center in Bergen, Professor Bettina Husebø. The Trond Mohn Foundation joins forces with the University of Bergen to fund this center with a total of NOK 52 million over the next five years.

Congratulations on completing your TMS Starting Grant, Helen F. Leslie-Jacobsen!

Helen Frances Leslie-Jacobsen received a TMS Starting Grant for the project Transformation of Medieval Law: Innovation and Application in Early Modern Norwegian Law Books.

New research center at Helse Bergen will find out why patients with serious psychotic disorders have a life expectancy that is 15-20 years less than ordinary people

Psychotic disorders, which include schizophrenia and bipolar disorders, affect between 1-2 percent of the population, and at least 30,000 people currently live with such disorders in Norway. The disorders lead to a significantly reduced quality of life and 15-20 years shortened average lifespan due to both natural and unnatural causes of death. Today's treatment methods have proven to be insufficient for a large subgroup of patients, which requires new research and a rethinking of treatment options in the field.

Congratulations on completing your TMS Starting Grant, Konrad Tywoniuk!

Konrad Tywoniuk from the department of physics and technology at UiB led the project Thermalising Jets: New Aspects of Non-Equilibrium Processes at Colliders.

Why do we get sick? Researchers in Bergen will find out more about this.

Norwegian researchers have unique access to data that can provide new knowledge about the causes of various diseases, but the gathering of new insights from the extensive national registers and biobanks requires collaboration across different disciplines. The Trond Mohn Foundation supports this research in a newly established research center for translational epidemiology with three new projects.

The Foundation’s yearly celebration December 1 – the detailed program is ready

The Trond Mohn Foundation announces this year's awards to the TMS Starting Grant program at the annual celebration. The detailed program is now ready.

Welcome to the Foundation’s yearly celebration December 1

The Trond Mohn Foundation announces this year's awards to the TMS Starting Grant program at the annual celebration. In addition, you will learn more about the foundation's and Tromsø research foundation's joint program in PET - nuclear medicine

Continuation of the TMS UiB career program: help and guidance for young research leaders

The Trond Mohn Foundation and UiB continue to fund a career program for young research leaders .

Elisabeth Stephansen’s lecture; highlights outstanding female mathematicians

Elisabeth Stephansen, Norway's first woman with a doctorate in mathematics, was from Bergen. She is honored with a separate lecture series in the PureMath project

Bergen team on a challenging research cruise to the Arctic Ocean

What is hidden in the Arctic Ocean at 5000 m deep? Bergen researchers on a research cruise to the Arctic Ocean will try to find answers this year.

The Trond Mohn Foundation and the Tromsø Research Foundation collaborate on their own UiT initiative

Trond Mohn's long-standing commitment to research at UiT – the Arctic University of Norway is now being continued through a collaboration between the sister foundations Trond Mohn Foundation (TMS) and Tromsø Research Foundation (TFS).

Exciting results in climate and environmental research

On the occasion World Environment Day 2023, the Trond Mohn Foundation presents an overview of articles and awards for researchers who were or are currently funded by the foundation and congratulates all the authors and award winners.